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Jason Allor , dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser .  The idea was to make it much easier to create a LINQ provider over any arbitrary data source (a web service, custom business objects, etc).  This...

Thanks to all of you who asked… I had to take a sick day today, so this was nice mindless work to get done. Hope you enjoy it! Part 1: Navigation Basics [ Spanish ] Part 2: Rich Data Query [ Spanish ] Part 3: Authentication [ Spanish ] Part...

  Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft WPF\ClickOnce add-ons. As Mike Shaver (VP Engineering for the Mozilla) noted in his blog post , this action is the result of Mozilla and Microsoft working together...

Thanks to Yannick Aristidi we are getting many of the RIA Services posts from my series translated into French!  Partie 1: les bases de la navigation Partie 2: l'accès aux données Partie 3: L’authentification   Thanks Yannick, i hope there are...

Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF that all have very cool new stuff to talk about at the...

As a nice follow up from my Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines talk, I saw that they just posted the video (slides+audio).   Enjoy!   Oh, and i must include the shameless plug…  Framework Design...

The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to actively prevent data from being accessed expected by...

ReMix in Lisbon, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour. They keynote (as much as I could understand of it) was a lot of fun. They did the Developer\designer egg shtick , but with a real egg! My this point, I have really hit my stride...

ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great.  The attendees were very engaged and the venue was quite nice.  Simon Guest gave the keynote and did a very nice job of bring together SketchFlow , .NET RIA Services and Sql Azure .  I had the...